Kawhi Leonard of the LA Clippers attempts a layup past LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers during a season opening game at Staples Center on December 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Harry How/Getty Images/AFP The Los Angeles Lakers sure didn't have long to savor their 17th NBA title. Little...
In these last few days of the year, our officials will be closely watching the figures of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the country, to see the effects of the general easing of restrictions for the holiday season, particularly the gathering of people for the Simbang Gabi. The officials know the...
There were tense moments in recent years in the relations between the Philippines and China, putting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in a quandary, but now, at the end of the second decade of the 21st century, a regime of peace and cooperation has developed, ensuring long-term...
Another Filipina nurse was in international news reports Thursday. The first was May Parsons, one of the nearly 20,000 Filipino nurses on the staff of the Britain’s National Health Service, who injected the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot into Margaret Keenan, 90, last Tuesday. It was the...
The number of Filipinos going hungry has reached a record high during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the polling organization Social Weather Stations (SWS) found in its latest quarterly survey for September. The number has been going up since May, two months after Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon...
The Los Angeles Clippers will be keeping Paul George in his Southern California home for four more years, signing the veteran NBA forward to a contract extension reportedly worth up to $226 million. "As a kid growing up in Southern California, I always dreamed of playing in Los Angeles, where my...
Secretary John Castriciones of the Department of Agrarian Reform announced this weekend a program that, he hopes, will encourage more young Filipinos to engage in farming and, in the process, help attain the goal of food security for the country. Fresh graduates of agricultural courses, he said,...
Photo from Floyd Mayweather's Instagram account Floyd Mayweather announced Sunday he is set for an exhibition boxing match against popular YouTube personality Logan Paul at an undetermined venue early next year. No details were released about the former boxing champion's latest exhibition, other...
The United Nations Children‘s Fund (UNICEF) came out Wednesday with a report that may have relevance to our educational system in the Philippines. About 1.3 billion school-age children worldwide whose schools have closed down due to the COVID-19 have no access to Internet at...
Jake Paul reacts over his knockout victory against Nate Robinson in the second round during Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr. presented by Triller at Staples Center on November 28, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Joe Scarnici / Getty Images for Triller / AFP) Former NBA veteran Nate Robinson was full...
The COVID-19 pandemic is still with us and in the rest of the world and it is surging in a new wave of infections and deaths in the United States and Europe. We are fortunate the virus has not been as virulent in our country as it has been in the US, India, Brazil, France, Russia, and Spain which...
Screenshot from Paul Rubie Tokyo Lee's YouTube channel PBA stars Paul Lee and Kiefer Ravena cannot help but continue the basketball grind after their elimination in the Clark bubble in Pampanga a few weeks ago. On their previous vlog, Lee had vowed to take a 20-day break before starting his workout...
